The Sleuth: July 22, 2007 - July 28, 2007

Some folks undoubtedly will head over to the Center for Strategic and International Studies this evening for no other reason than to hear what creative epithets the Venezuelan ambassador might hurl at President Bush. "The devil" has already been taken, of course. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez used that one to describe Bush during a speech to the U.N. General Assembly last year. So, who knows...

With a White House as press shy as President Bush's, sometimes you have to travel very far from Washington, maybe even to the middle of nowhere, to find out what's really going on. Try Twin Lakes, Colo., population 20, which is where Karl Rove stopped recently and dropped some clues to the owner of an inn about what life after Bush might entail for him....